Editorial of the special issue - "Rosetta and Philae at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko"

Taylor, Matthew G. G. T.; Ulamec, Stephan

Abstract

Giotto, the first european/ESA - interplanetary space probe had not flown by Halley's comet, yet, when the first plans for the next mission to investigate a comet were being made. back in 1984, Rosetta became part of ESAs horizon 2000 programme, originally envisioned as a comet nucleus sample return mission.

2016 Acta Astronautica
Rosetta 2